The great organ hunt.

The last in a four-part series on the history of transplant surgery, setting out the controversies and ethical problems that arose from it, examining the personalities and rivalries involved in its development, and transplant surgeons' hopes for the next century. This part includes the solution of the rejection problem in transplant surgery brought a new source of frustration - the shortage of donor organs. This programme looks at legal and illegal methods used to obtain organs and at research into the use of animal organs for human transplant. Dr. Robert White (Ohio) takes this approach further - his animal transplant experiments led him to look forward to the possibility of supplying people with new bodies, by means of a head transplant.